Unconvincing but valid advice nonetheless. If (the protestant) God existed, people who hadn’t read the Bible would be uneducated for that reason, and would gain a great deal from reading the entire thing. I can’t just tell you the one portion relevant because 1) you might need to read the rest to understand and 2) reading the rest would be good for you anyway.
Although it is not impossible that a topic is such complex and “irreducible” that the understanding of it can only be acquired as a whole and no partial understanding is accessible, I don’t find it probable even in case of counterfactual God’s existence.
Unconvincing but valid advice nonetheless. If (the protestant) God existed, people who hadn’t read the Bible would be uneducated for that reason, and would gain a great deal from reading the entire thing. I can’t just tell you the one portion relevant because 1) you might need to read the rest to understand and 2) reading the rest would be good for you anyway.
Although it is not impossible that a topic is such complex and “irreducible” that the understanding of it can only be acquired as a whole and no partial understanding is accessible, I don’t find it probable even in case of counterfactual God’s existence.